48 SEEDLING PLANTS. 



tubers may be potted in fresh soil and placed in water at a temperature of 75° 

 to 80°, when they will start into active growth and send out numerous shoots 

 making separate and independent growths. Select the strongest when they 

 have three or four leaves, and pot into 4-inch pots; these will make better 

 plants individually, and produce larger and better flowers than a number of 

 smaller plants. As soon as established in these pots they should be planted in 

 permanent summer quarters, or repotted into 6-inch pots if it be too early to 

 plant out. Others may be allowed to finish their growth in 4-inch pots and 

 mature tubers for another year; all Nymphseas that produce tubers may be 

 treated as above recommended. 



Victoria and Euryale plants are annuals, producing no tubers, and propa- 

 gation is eilected only by seed ; sow in February and March, according to the 

 date when it is considered safe for planting out, allowing between three and 

 four months from date of sowing seed to time for planting. — (vSee further 

 directions in Chapter IX). 



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